WFHB Bloomington Community Radio
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This episode features an excerpt from the novel Controlled Conversations by Karol Lagodzki. The novel offers the reader a look at life under martial law. In Poland, in 1982 it became required for telephone operators to clearly state, “This conversation is being controlled.” These first two chapters of the novel begin with phone operator Emilia, one of three central characters. She wanted to study literature, and is still an avid reader. But the author captures her current situation in two succinct sentences, “Somehow, everything had gone wrong,” and, “Now it’s June 1982 and Emilia sits and monitors sin, love, and banality.”
Here is a link to Chapter Two of the novel.
SoS Episode 8 – Part II of Controlled Conversations
Controlled Conversations will be available in August by Milford House Press. Find more at Karol’s website.
Music:
Show Theme – “Firetime” by The Keithe Lowrie Duet
Chopin – Mazurka in G Major, Op. 67, no.1
Chopin – Preludes, Op. 28, no. 4 – “Suffocation”
Credits:
Narrator: Malgorzata Cavar
Producer & Host: Robert Shull
Audio Engineer: Doug Storm
Literary Consultant: Shana Ritter
Executive Producer: Josh Brewer
